General average declared for Ever Forward after unsuccesful attempts to refloat

Re:General average declared for Ever Forward after unsuccesf... by dcx on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:44AM (#30876329)

I have worked nearby to this area - this is a legal principle, but the way this takes force in contracts is either by including a specific clause, or via a pointer to an international shipping standard which pulls in sensible defaults. Something like what happens with force majeure clauses [1]. International shipping contracts are themselves fairly standardised; they're thick and have all kinds of things in them, accreted over literally centuries of practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure

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Re:General average declared for Ever Forward after unsuccesf... by toyg on Friday April 01, 2022 @05:23AM (#30876473)

> they're thick and have all kinds of things in them, accreted over literally centuries of practice.

Oh, so the field is ripe for disruption by a startup that will jettison all that, replace it with arbitrary anti-customer terms under a thin layer of technology, and make bank! /s

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Re:General average declared for Ever Forward after unsuccesf... by sidewndr46 on Friday April 01, 2022 @07:00AM (#30876946)

Don't forget making everything Wi-Fi enabled. Even if the device has no possible need for it.

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Re:General average declared for Ever Forward after unsuccesf... by hnburnsy on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:33AM (#30877891)

And only works with an app, not in a web browser.

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Re:General average declared for Ever Forward after unsuccesf... by toyg on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:34AM (#30877906)

And got to be a subscription, even if I want to ship a single container.

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Re:General average declared for Ever Forward after unsuccesf... by hnburnsy on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:34AM (#30877895)

Thanks for the insight!

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